Wed, Jan. 16, 2013 7:00-9:00pm

This ended up being a heavy on the kicking, light on the arms day, which was nice for a change. Basically a recovery day...though the intervals don't exactly show it. My body just doesn't fatigue nearly as bad by doing kicking only.

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Enjoy it! It was a nice change to do this today. And fun as well having so many good kickers all around me in the 3 lanes too. Doing this solo would be tough for sure though, I myself have a hard time pushing too far past the pain zone when I'm by myself.

I like all the kicking, but hate when kicking is consigned to recovery. Did the kids think it was recovery or just the usual short rest stuff?

It's so true that a team helps push you in terms of lactate tolerance. I just hate doing that stuff on my own.

FOr the most part, the kids do quite well with the workouts. The "troubled ones" tend to be the teenage high school girls..and for some reason the coach lets them get away with what they do. I guess he figures he'll help the ones who WANT to get better, and just let the others take up valuable lane space. Grrrrr...

Yeah, if you don't train this way, and all of a sudden try a workout like this, it can be tough. But I'm used to the kicking now.

Aside from backstroke, I am a terrible kicker - always have been. I have exercise-induced asthma, but it wasn't diagnosed until I was a teenager. I wonder if maybe I learned when I was a kid that I had a lot of trouble breathing when I kicked hard and so avoided doing it, but during backstroke I had easy access to air and could kick more. I'm trying to force myself to kick more non-backstroke stuff now.

FOr the most part, the kids do quite well with the workouts. The "troubled ones" tend to be the teenage high school girls..and for some reason the coach lets them get away with what they do. I guess he figures he'll help the ones who WANT to get better, and just let the others take up valuable lane space. Grrrrr...

Teenage girls can be total head cases in the pool. That's part of why Teen Fort quit USS at 15. Their times often plateau at that age and they can't seem to deal well with it.

Teenage girls can be total head cases in the pool. That's part of why Teen Fort quit USS at 15. Their times often plateau at that age and they can't seem to deal well with it.

I don't say anything vocal about it (but my mind is racing with things I'd like to say). One of the older girls who is fast and does work, occasionally tries to say stuff, but it falls on deaf ears most of the time.